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CHURCH STRIFE.
Dr. Talmage Discourses on the Bat
tle of Creeds.
The Cemtrormnim BatTUan-'Workaf
Beqatalta Thaa Strifea-The KUgiea
of Chrtet Bettr Thma Crm4 DU-
P ate-Worklr Together.
In a sermon at Brooklyn lately the
subject chosen by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal
mage was "The Battle of Creeds. Hia
text was from PrOTerbs xxvi. 17: "He
that passeth by and meddleth with
strife belonging not to him is like one
that takcthadog by the ears." The
preacher said:
Solomon here deplores the habit of
rushing ia between tf tanta, of taking-
part ia the aatgoniaa.af others, of
joining in fights which they ought to
shan. They do bo good to others and
get damage to themselves. lie com
pares it to the experiment of taking a
dog by the earn Nothing so irritates
the canines as to be clutched bytbs
lugs. Take them by the back of the
neck and lift them and it does not seem
to hurt or offend, but you take the dog
by the ear and he will take yoa
with his teeth. In all the history of
kennels no intelligent or spirited dog
will stand that "Now," says Solomon,
"you go into quarrels or controversies
that arc not yours and you will get
lacerated and torn and bitten. 'He
that passeth by and meddleth with
fetrife belonging not to him is like one
that takclh a dog by the ears.'"
This is a time of resounding ecclesi
astical quarrel. Ncrer within your
memory or mine has the air been so
full of missiles. The Presbyterian
church has on hand a controversy so
great that it finds it prudent to post
pone its settlement for at least one
moro year, hoping that something will
turn up. Somebody may die or a new
general assembly may have grace to
handle these exciting questions. The
Episcopal church has cast out some re
calcitrants, and its digestive organs arc
taxed to the utmost in trying to assim
ilate others. "Shall women preach?"
"Or be sent as delegates to conference?"
are questions that have put many of
our Methodist brethren on the "anxious
Mat." And the waters in some of the
great baptistries are troubled waters.
Kecause of the controversies through
out Christendom the air is now like an
August afternoon about fi o'clock, when
it bus leen steaming hot all diiy, and
clouds an, gathering, and there aro
lions of thunder with grumbling voices
and flashing eyes coming forth from
their cloudy lairs, and people arc
waiting for the full burst of the tempest
I am not much o a weather prophet,
but the clouds look to me mostly like
wind clouds. It may Iks a big blow,
but I hope it will soon be over. In re
gard to the battle of the creeds I am
every day askedwhat I think about it,
I want to make -It so plain this morning
what I think that no one will ever ask
again. The most damaging thing on
earth is religious controversy. No one
ever comes out of it as good a man as
I.f goes in. Some of the ministers, in
all denominations, who, before the
present acerbity were good and kind
and useful, now seem almost swearing
mad. These brethren I notice
always open their violent meet
ings with prayer Iniforc devour
ing each other, thus saying grace
lefore meat They have a moral
hydrophobia that makes us think they
have taken a dog by the ears. They
never read the imprecatory psalms of
lavid with such zest as since the
Ilriggs and Newton aiidMacQucary and
Itridgman and Brooks questions got in
to full swing. May the rams of the
sheepfold soon have their horns sawed
off. Hcfore the controversies are settled,
a good many ministers will, through
what they call liberalism, lc lauded in
to praotic.il infidelity, and others
through what they call conservatism,
will shrink up into bigots tight and
hard as the mummies of Egypt which
got through their controversies II.OOO
years ago.
This trouble throughout Christen
dom, was directly inspired of Satan.
He saw that too much good was being
done. Kecrutts w ere lcing gathered by
hundreds of thousands to the gospel
standard. The victories for Uod and
the truth were too near together. Too
many churches were Iwing dedicated.
Too manv ministers ncre being or
dained. Too manv philinthropics were
leing fostered. Too many souls were
lcing saved.
What amazes me most Ls that all peo
ple do not sec that the entire movement
at this time all over Christendom is
hatanic Many of the infernal attacks
arc sly and hidden and strategic and
no ingenious that they arc not easily
discovered. But here Ls a bold and un
covered attempt of the powerof dark
ness to split up the churches, to get
ministers to take each other by the
throat, to make religion a laughing
stock of earth and holt, to leave the
Bible with no more respect or authen
ticity than an old almanac of 1822,
which told what would Ik the change
of weather six months ahead and in
what quarter of the moon it is best to
plant turnips. In a word, the effort is
to stop the evangelization of the world.
It seems to me very much like this:
There has been a railroad accident and
many are woanded and dying. There
are several drug stores near the scene
of casualty. All the doctors and drug
gists are needed and needed right away.
Bandages, stimulants, annvsthctics,
medicines of all sorts. What are the
doctors and druggists doing? Discus
sing the contents of some old bottles
on the top shelf, bottles of medicine
which some doctors and druggists
mixed two hundred or three hun
dred years ago. "Come, doctors!"
"Come druggists!" cry the people, "and
help these wounded and dying that are
being brought from beneath the tim
bers of the crushed rail train. In a lit
tle while it will be too late. Come, for
God's sake! Come right sway!" "No,"
says a doctor, "not until we have set
tled whether the medicine on that top
shelf was rightly mixed. I say there
were too many drops of laudanum in
it and this other man says there are too
many drops of camphire, and we must
get this question settled before we can
attend to the railroad accident" And
pne doctor takes another doctor by the
collar and pushes him rack against ihe
cuinter, and one of the druggists says:
If you will not admit that I am right
about that one bottle, I will smash
every bottle in your apothecary store,"
and he proceeds to smash. Meanwhile,
on the lower shelf, plainly marked and
within easy reach, are ajl the medicines
-eded for the helping of the sufferers
oy the accident, and in that drawer,
easily opened, are bandages and splints,
for the lack of which fifty people are
dying outside the drug store.
Before I apply this thought everyone
sees its application. Here is this world
and it is off track. Sin and sorrow
have collided with it The groan of
agony is fourteen hundred million
voiced. God has opened far relief sad
cure a great sanitarium, a great honse
of mercy and all its shelves are filled
with balsams, with catholicons, with
help, glorious help, tremendoas help,
so easily administered that yon need
not get upon any step-ladder to reach
it. You can reach it on your knees
and then hand it to all the suffering and
the sinning and the dying. Comfort
for ail the troubled! Pardoaforall the
fuilty! Peace for all the dying! Bnt
while the world is needing the relief
and perishing for lack of it, what of the
church? Why, it k fnll of fighting doc
tors. On the top shelf are some old
bottles which several hundred years
ago Calvin or Arminias, or the mem
bers of the synod of Dort, or the frara
ers of the Nicene creed filled with holy
mixtures, and nntil we get a revision
of these old bottles and find out
whether we mast take a teaspooafal or
tablespoonfal, and whether before or
after meals, let the nations suffer and
groan and die. Save the bottles by all
means, if you cannot save anything else!
Now, what part shall you and I take
in this controversy which fills all
Christendom with clangor? My advice
is: Take no part In time of riot all
mayors of cities advise good citizens to
stay at home or ia their places of busi
ness aad ia this time of religions riot I
advise yoa to fo about your regular
work for God. Leave the bottles on
the higher shelves for others to fight
aboat and take the two bottles on the
shelf 'within easy reach, the two bottles
which all this dying world needs; the
law Hied with a portion which is for
the cleaning of all sin, the other filled
with a portion which is for the soothing
of all saJFering. The gospel bottles!
Christ mixed them oat of his own tears
and blood. In them is no human ad
mixture. Spend no time on the myste
ries! Tom, a man only five or six feet
high, osght not try to wade an ocean a
thousand feet deep.
My own experience has been vivid. I
derated the most of my time for years
in trying to understand God's eternal
decrees and I was determined to find
out why the Lord let sin come into the
world, and I set out to explore the doc
trine of the Trinity, and with a yard
stick to measure the throne of the In
finite. As with all my predecessors,
the attempt was a dead failure. For
the last thirty years I have not spent
two minutes in studying the contro
verted points of theology, and if I live
thirty years longer I will not spend the
thousandth part of a second in such ex
ploration. Creeds have their uses, but just now
the church is creeded to death. The
young men entering the ministry, arc
going to be launched in the thickest fog
that ever settled on the coasts. As I
am told that in all our services students
of Princeton and Union and Drew and
other theological seminaries are pres
ent and an these words will come to
thousands of young men who are soon
to enter the ministry, let me say to
such and through them to their associ
ates, keep out of the bewildering bclit
tling, destroying and angry controver
sies abroad. The questions our doctors
of divinity are trying to settle will not
be settled until the day after the day
of judgment It is such a poor ocono
my of time to spend years and years in
trying to fathom the unfathomable,
when in five minutes in Heaven we will
know all we want to know. Wait till
we get our throne. Wait until the light
of eternity flashes upon our newly as
cended spirits.
You see, God knew as much when He
made the Bible as He knows now. He
has not learned a thing in six thousand
years He knew at the start that the
human race would go wrong and what
would lc the best means of its restora
tion and redemption. And the law
which was thundered on Mount Sinai
is the perfect law. And the gospel
which Christ announced while dying on
that mount and which Paul preached
is the gosjcl that is going to save the
world. Young man, put on that gos
pel armor! No other shield will protect
like that No other helmet will glance
off the battle axes like that Our theo
logical seminaries are doing glorious
work, but if ever such theological
seminaries shall cease to prepare young
men for this plain gospel advocacy and
shall become mere philosophical schools
for guessing about God, and guessing
about the Bible, and guessing about
the soul they will cease their useful
ness, and young men as in olden time,
when they would study for the gospel
ministry, will put themselves under the
care of some intelligent and warm
hearted pastor and kneel with him in
family prayer at the pastorate and go
with him into the room of the sick and
the dying and see what victories the
grace of God can gain when the couch
of the dying saint is the Marathon.
Now, what is the simple fact that
you in the pew and Sabbath school
class and reformatory association and
we in the pulpits have to deal with?
It is this: That God has somewhere,
and it matters not where, but some
where, provided a great Heaven, great
for quietness for those who want quiet
great for vast assemblage for those
who like multitudes great for archi
tecture for those who like architecture,
great for beautiful landscape for those
who like beautiful landscape, great for
music for those who like music, great
for processions for those who like
armies on white horses and great for
anything that one especially desires in
such a rapturous dominion; and through
the doings of One who was born about
five miles south of Jerusalem and died
about ten minutes' walk from its east
ern gate, all may enter that great
Heaven for the earnest and heartfelt
asking. Is that all? That is all?
What then is your work and mine?
Our work is to persuade people to face
that way and start thitherward and
finally go in.
A peculiar patchwork quilt was, dur
ing the civil war, made by a lady and
sent to the hospitals at the front She
had a boy in the army, and was nat
urally interested in the welfare of sol
diers. But what a patchwork quilt she
sent! On every block of the quilt was
a passage of Scripture or a verse of a
hymn. The months and years of the
war went by. On that quilt many a
wounded man had lain and suffered
and died. But one morning the hospi
tal enrse saw a patient under the blan
ket kissing the figure of a leaf in the
quilt and the nurse supposed he was
only wandering in his mind. But no,
he was the son of the mother who had
made the qmllt and he recognized that
figure of a leaf as part of a gown his
mother used to wear, and it reminded
him of home. "Do you know where
this quilt came from?" he asked. The
nurse answered: "I can find out for
there was a card pinned to it
and I will find that" Sure
enough, it confirmed what he
thought. Then the nurse pointed to
a passage of Scripture in the block of
the quilt the passage which says;
"When he was a great way off his
father saw him and ran and fell on his
neck and kissed him." "Yes." said the
dying soldier, "I was a great way off,
bnt God has met me and had com
passion on me." "Shall I write to your
mother and tell her the lost one is
found and the dead is alive again?" He
answered: "I wish you would if it
would not be too much throuble." Do
you suppose that woman who made that
quilt and filled it with Scripture pas
sages had any trouble about who Mel
chizedek was or how the doctrine of
God's sovereignty can be harmonised
with man's free agency, or who wrote
the Pentateuch, or the inconsistencies
of the Nicene creed?
Good enough intention, my brother,
no doubt; bnt the Lord is not anxious
to have you help Him. He will keep
His throne without your assistance.
Boat be afraid that the Bible will fall
apart from inconsistencies. It hung
together many centuries before yoa
were bora, aad your funeral sermon
will be preached from a text taken
from its undisturbed aathenttetty. De
yon know that I thiak if all ministers ia
all denominations would stop this aoa
sense of ecclesiastical strife aad take
hold of the Word of God, the only qaetv
tkm with each of as being how many
souls we can bring to Christ and ia how
short a time, the Lord would soon ap
pear for the salvation of all nations?
When the young queen of England
visited Scotland maay years ago, great
preparations were made for her recep
tion. The vessel ia which she sailed
was far out at sea. bnt every hill ia
Scotland was illumined with bonfires
and torches. The night was set on Ire
with artificial illumination. Theqneem,
standing on ship's deck, knew from
that that Scotland was fnll of heartiest
welcome and the thunder of the great
guns at Glasgow aad Edinburgh castle
woke np all the echoes. Boom! they
sounded out over the sea. Boom! they
sounded np among the hills. Do yoa
know that I think oar King would land
if we were only ready to receive him?
Why not call to Him from all our
churches, from all our hospitals from
all our homes? Why not all at
once light all the torches of
gospel invitatian? Why aOt ring
all the "bells of welcome? Why not
light up the world's sin and suffering
with bonfires of victory? Why not no
limber all the gospel batteries and let
them boom across the earth and boom
into the parting Heavens? The King
is ready to land if we are ready to re
ceive him. Why can not we who are
now living see his descent? Must it all
be postponed to later ages? Has not
our poor world groaned long enough in
mortal agonies? Have there not been
martyrs enough, and have not the lakes
of tears and rivers of blood been deep
enough? Why can not the final glory
roll in now? Why can not this dying
century feel the incoming tides of the
oceans of Heavenly mercy?
M ust our ej'cs close in death and our
ears take on the deafness of the tomb,
and these hearts beat their last throb
leforc the day comes in? O, Christ!
Why tarriest Thou? Wilt Thou not
lief ore we go the way of all the earth,
let us see Thy scarred feet under some
noonday cloud coming this way? Be
fore we die let us behold Thy hands
were spiked, spread out in benediction
for a lost race And why not let us
with our mortal ears hear that voice
which spoke peace as thou didst go
up, speak pardon and .emancipation
and love and holiness and joy to all
nations as Thou comest down? But the
skies do not part I hear no rumbling
of chariot wheels coming down over
the sapphire. There is no swoop of
wings. I see no flash of angelic ap
pearances. All isstilL I hear nothing
but the tramp of my own heart as I
pause, letwcen these utterances The
king docs not land because the world is
not ready, and the church s not ready.
To clear the way for the Lord's com
ing let us devote all our energies of
body, mind and souL
A Russian general, riding over the
battlefield, his horse treading among
the dying and dead, a wounded soldier
asked him for water, but the officer did
not understand his language and knew
not what the poor fellow wanted.
Then the soldier cried out: "Christos,"
and that word meant sympathy and
help, and the Russian officer dismount
ed and put to the lips of the sufferer a
cooling draught Be that the charmed
word with which we go forth to do our
whole duty. In many languages it has
only a little difference of ter
mination. Christos! It stands
for sympathy. It stands for help. It
stands for pardon. It stands for hope.
It stands for Heaven. Christos! In
that name we were baptized. In that
name we took our first sacrament
That will lie the battle shout that will
win the whole world for God. Christos!
Put it on our banners when we march!
Put it on our lips when we die! Put it
in the funeral psalm at our obsequies!
Put it on the plain slab over our grave!
Christos! Blessed be His glorious name
forever! Amen!
PENNEY'S SINKIN FEELIN'.
Somr of the ChmracterUtlr nf m Colored
Cook Arrnrateljr I'lirlraj-tMl.
"Where is the custard that was in
this bowl, Penney?" I asked, as look
ing into the stove, I missed half that I
had prepared for dinner.
"Miss Kate," she said, eyeing me
firmly, "do you think I would slip your
custard?"
"I do not say so, Fcnney; I only ask
what has become of it since I gave it to
yon to cook?"
"Do you know. Miss Kate, dat right
don't wrong nobody, an you know I
has dis sinkin' feellh' here," she an
swered, placing her hand over her belt,
"an' I has to cat somethin right away.
My ole man dun tole me I must always
do it an' I knowed you didn't have no
use for more than half that custard, so
I cooked a little of it In dis here very
pan" she lifted the pan and shook it
at mc "to eat fer dat sinkin,' an' it dun
cured mc"
No symptoms of remorse or guilt dis
turbed the serenity of her countenance
as she spoke, and it was really with
some embarrassment that I said: "Well,
Penney, I do not wish you to divide my
food before you send it to the table.
You must never do it again without
asking mc," I rather lamely concluded.
I had found my first leaf-embowered
guinea nest the week before. Persons
who have never had this pleasure have
no idea how exquisite it is. The clean
eggs were piled in tiers in the dainty
cavern, that must not be touched under
penalty of the hen abandoning her
nest The next day Penney, again op
pressed with the sinking feeling, had
gone, with my permission, into the or
chard for fruit to make her a pic. I
thought of ray treasure trove as she re
turned, and, throwing on my hat I hur
ried to the nest only to find it entirely
empty.
"Penney," I wrathfully exclaimed, as
I reached the kitchen door, "did you
take those eggs that were under the
apple tree?" An inscrutable, fortified
expression spread over her face.
"Miss Katie, I rather die than tell
you a lie; dat's de way my ma raised
me. I felt like I couldn't wait to cook
no pies fer dis sinkin', an I thought de
aigs would do jast as welL I didn't
know it was your nest 'cause yon don't
make no practice cr findin' nests, an' I
put der last one er dem aigs right ia dat
ar pot er greens to bile, aa'if yon don't
bleve me you can look in dar an see
fer yosclf. Bnt please, Mir Kate, don't
think 1 was tryia' to slip. My ole man
say be would rather fur me to quit than
fer yon to think I would slip. He ant
so overly settled ia his mind 'bout stay
in' here nohow."
Her calmness and mystery of the sit
uation completed my discomfiture, aad
after arebnke that was tame indeed in
proportion to the offense, I left her ia
possession of the field aad my ejrgs.
Her sinking feelings wonld have be
come monotonous if they had not alter
nated with a "hard feelin';" especiaUy
after gorging herself on "drap dump
lings." In sack aa eveat she insisted
that she heeded "strong medicine," aad
remained ia bed all day. This occurred
so often that my father, whose experi
ence ia sack eases was liautlaaa, sag
gested a remedy which ha called halm
tea. He prepared H of a powerful
emetic, disguised as sajrar and pepper
mint Peaaey rraanlsisni bitterly that
after taking it she "could mot keep
aothia on her stnmmick," but it al
wayassf acted a care, Mapahis AaytaJ
Avalanche,
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
FOR WEIGHING SWINE.
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A neighbor who has largely combined
stack raising with farming, frequently
haying stock aad feeding for market
employs a cheap aad convenient sac th
aa of weighing small animals. At one
corner of a small yard or pea into
which the animals may be driven sa
inclined plaae is constructed for the
purpose of loading them into wagons.
This inclined plane is not immediately
eoaaected with the yard, a passage 4
feet wide snd 7 or 8 feet long leading
np to it as shown in the engraving.
In this level part of the passage k
placed the framed box or "cage."
showa st Fig. L Five feet long. SH
feet wide aad 4 feet high is found to be
a very satisfactory size for this cage, ae
it will admit the largest hog or several
smaller animals. The construction of
this cage is well shown in the engrav
lag. The frame is made of oak or
ether good timber not less thaa 2
Inches square. Three cross pieces be
low support a solid loor. Only two are
necessary above. These cross pieces
above aad below, are mortised into
the side frame H iach from the end,
so that a board ashed serosa the end
leaves an opening a little more thaa aa
Inch wide, ia which the sliding gate
may freely move ap and down. Snch
a gate is made at each end of the cage.
The upright bars of the gate are laid
in position aad the cross bars fastened
to them afterward, making it impossi
Flo. 1. CAGE FOK WEIGHING fiWlXa.
ble to remove the gate. The ends of
tho upright bars extend an inch or
more below the lower cross bar and
enter the narrow opening at the bot
tom of the frame, thus holding the
gate firmly in place A stout latch on
the upper part of the frame and a heavy
staple in each cross bar of the gate
furnish means of locking the gate
down or holding it up. An iron rod,
terminating in a hook at the top, is
placed near each corner of the cage.
These extend down through the lower
frame, that they may carry the entire
weight when the cage is nuspended.
At the side of the narrow passage in
which this cage rests is a large post 10
feet high, notched at the top to receive
the lever. The short end of this lever
extending over the passage is necessa
rily 3 or 4 feet long, while the longer
end should be about four times this
length, making the entire lever 16 or 20
feet long. A piece of good timber, 8
inches by 4, placed edge upward, will
be strong enough for this purpose. To
make it lighter without weakening, the
lower side cf the longer arm of the
lever is tapered off to the end, where it
need not be more than A inches square.
Here it bears against another post to
which it is confined by a guard of iron,
allowing vertical motion only. In the
short arm of the lever, directly alnvc
the center of the cage, a large ring-bolt
is inserted. Attached to this is a large
steelyard, weighing up to 1.000 or 1,200
pounds. The cage is hung to the steel
yard by four chains of equal length,
joined together above by a large ring
and connecting below with the iron
rods of the cage. It is intended that
the two sides of the lever, when the
cage is attached, should be nearly bal-
FIO. 2. DEVICK KOB WEIGHING SWINE.
nnced, the short arm being a little the
heavier. If it is not so, a bos of stone
placed on top of that part of the lever
will make it right
Now for the method of operation.
The gate of tho cage next to the pen
is raised, and it being several feet with
in a narrow passage and in a corner of
the pen. there is no great difficulty in
driving an animal into it. The gate is
now cloned and the cage with the
animal in it is lifted from the ground
by pulling down on the outer end of
the lever. For this purpose a chain is
attached, and when drawn down is
hung on a stout iron pin driven into the
post The lever is thus held in position
while the weighing is done. A plank
laid scross the fence shove the cage
serves as a platform for the weigher.
If it is desired to put the animals
into wagons after weighing, the gate
next the inclined plane is raised and
they sre easily driven up.
The Inclined plane is not a necessary
attachment to the scales as each may
be used independently of tho other, but
it will be fonnd most convenient to
have them connected as described.
The advantage claimed for this de
vice is not that of general service as
scales for it can never take the place
of good platform scales. But because
of their great cost few farmers can af
ford these, yet there is scarcely one
who has not occasion to use something
of the kind just described. Its low cost
places it within the reach of alt and
once in possession, it will be used much
more frequently than might be sup
posed. S. P. Shall, in Rural New
Yorker.
Practice vs. Sjtaa4a.
Aa ounce of successful practice is
worth n ton of hypothesis. If you sre
making gilt-edged butter in old-fash-ioaed
ways, do not be in n hurry to
change, because some so-called suthor
itv criticises your methods says the
Jersey Bulletin. The best method is
that which gets the best hatter with
the least expense of time and labor.
But the best method may possibly call
for a larger outlay for appliances than
the size of your dairy will warrant you
in making. So long as this is the
case, it Is the part of wisdom to do the
best yoa can with the ann at your
TW ict Wmnm
The writer ia a tarf journal gives the
following rule to estimate the height
n colt will grow to: Take a colt at any
time between six weeks old aad cam
year, stand him em a level jrface ae
that he will stand naturally, then
mssinit the distance from the hah-of
the hoof to his knee joint, ami for
inch or fracuoa thereof he
he win hehaadshhrh
matured. If he measures fifteen
es he wOl grow to be fifteen
high; if fifteen aad one-half inches, he
will he fifteen aad erne-half hands high.
aadseoa.
LrinrinrLJ
SALMON AND SEA TROUT.
Bmmm ltrUc Facta Crrnlc Ttir
!.! aiMl ftaMta.
Jfe authority oa fishes has keen able
te say where the sea treat aad the
salmon go m winter; but lwfon? the
brooks aad rivers begin te freeze in the
late fall they gather in large bodies,
pass rapidly down the stream aad swim
away for deep waters. Nothing Is ovn
of them again till tnward the 1st of
June, when they congregate about the
mouths of tidal rivers and brookv
A salme born in the Ictigoacle will
not, when it has become a grille, re
turn to the Miramichi or any other
river, bat will swim swiftly and alertly
up and down the eoast, sometimes far
several days, till it finds its own tircr
Sometimes the salmon, after it two
and a half years absence since it baby
hood, aad returning as a grilse to the
shore, esters the wrong stream, but he
fore it has sk am far upward it discover
its mistake, tnrns acain down stream.
leaving its companions and makes great
hastr to the shore, w ben it skirts along
till it finds its native river. I have often
watched grilse for hours after I knew
they had lost their way; they swim from
side to side of the river, examining the
bottom, the rocks, and the shallow, and
when they arc sure that they have never
seen the place !efure, they turn aad
speedily go seaward.
What makes this most remarkable is
that the salmon, which Ls hatched out
in the gravel or sand beds in the river
in the beginning of summer, remains ia
its native waters only about fivemoaths,
when it makes its way down with the
current, being then known as the parr,
a beautiful, lithe, and graceful little
fish from four to six inches long. Its
return is made when it is three years
old, when it is known as a grilse; but
its recollections from the time of its
babyhood are clear and unfailing.
How often have I lain quietly in a
birch-bark canoe at the foot of some,
fall on the Miramichi and Restigouche.
and watched the advancing march of
this licautiful fish'. As they reach the
boiling water at the bvttora of the fall,
they pause for a while, with their heads
up stream and very near to the surface;
then they swim acrov from right to
left looking upward to determine the
lowest part of the barrier in front of
them. Then they recoil for a short dis
tance, suddenly curve themselves in the
form nearly of the letter C, and spring
upward, making considerable commo
tion in the water from the push made
by the taiL The old salmon are the
best jumpers and often get to the top
of a fall at the first leap: hut 1 have fre
quently seen grilse and large salmon,
which I supjMse were very old, make a
Ldozen attempts lefore getting up. They
would reach nearly to tne otigo oi a
fall, fail, and tumble back with a gre.at
splash. After resting a minute or so,
they curved, and made the attempt
again. Hut I have known and heard of
no case where any grilse or fnirlj' young
salmon did not at last succeed in getting
over the barrier.
The sea trout cuts through the water
like an arrow, and springs Hix and
eight feet upward to get over rocks and
little falls. The object of the visit to
the streams every year is that these
fishes may deposit their eggs in the
shallow IkmIs of gravel and sanil that lie.
everywhere along the upper reaches of
the streams. When the female salmon
in the earlj- autumn is ready to lay her
eggs she poises herself alve some
shallow, with her head up stream, and
burrows into the sand, up and down
stream, till she has made a cavity large
enough; then she dcjosits her erg in
this opening. The constant motion of
the water in one direction soon covers
the ova with sand, and there they re
main buried till the next spring, when
thej grow as large as pease, and the
little fish come forth. It was lwlieved
up to little while ago that the salmon
fed while in fresh water in sumraer.and
this was held to explain why it nsc and
took the fisherman's fly so easily. It is
now known that the salmon does not
taste food during all the months that it
spends in the river; no food has ever
leen found in its stomach in summer,
and the stomach itself, on dissection, is
found to t ciosed during that season.
It is asked, why, then, does the salmon
rise to the fly. if not to eat it? My
opinion is. and it is sustained by fisher
men and ichthyologists, that the sal
mon takes the gaudy bait trailed about
it sometimes in play and often in angor.
This much is sure, the fish never makes
an attempt to swallow the fly, for it is
invariably found hooked in the lip.
Edmund Collins, in Harper's Young
I'eoplc.
ANCIENT AMERICAN CLOTHES.
Iteaatifnl Fhtir Worm from thr IIlr or
Animal.
The Mexicans spun and wove cotton,
and the Peruvians both cotton and wool,
into fabrics which the hpanianls found
in every way equal to anything they
had known at home. The Peruvians
in particular, were adepts in the art.
When Pizarro made the conquest of
their country in 1333. he found in the
empire of the Incas four species of
animals little different from each other,
which he called the sheep of the coun
try, because of their general revrmb
lance to the Spanish sheep, and the
similar utilization of its fiber. Two of
the species the llama and alpaca, had
been in a tat of domestication from
time immemorial, the remaining
varieties the vienna and the gnanaca,
living in a wild state in the fastnesses
of the Andev From a variety of sources
we are able to obtain minute details of
the importance which the government
attached to these animals and the large
part which they played in the domestic
economy of the conntry
The Peruvian woolen fibrics were of
three kinds a coarse wooltn cloth,
which they called avasca, which foravd
the raiment of the common people; a
finer variety, called compi, worn by the
captains and officials; and still another,
also called compi. but of much finer
quality, reserved for the use of pervro
of royal blood. Sp 'imens of thi cloth,
still preserved, reveal a fineness of tx
tnre and aa exquisite finish which mod
ern ingenuity rarely equals. Both sides
of these cloths were woven alike. The
delicacy of the textare gave it tb latter
of sDk. while th- brilliancy of the dyes
employed excited the envy and admira
tion of tlie European artisan. The
Peruvians made also shawls robes, car
pets; coverlets and hangings ia great
varieties of patterns. They knew how
to produce an article of great strenrth
aad durability, by mixing the hair of
naimals with the fleece of their llamas.
S.N. IX North, in Popular Science
Monthly.
Jewrtt te tW Gtst,
The largest amount of jewelry known
to be in a single grave said to hare
been buried several years ago in Green
wood cemetery, in Brooklyn, N. Y
The undertaker who had charge of the
funeral protested against H, bet was se
verely snubbed for his interference.
The family had its war, aad ia that
grave are fallv five thousand dollars
werth of diamonds with which the
bady was decked when prepared for
burial. Sometimes fsmQies who
Whary their dead in the dothmf
ialife mevw
Tanlstinnr frrrlhr jewelry weva in life,
partly frees metrres ef thrift aad partly
from a suneistltion. fear that any thing
taken off a body when it k ready foe
the tomb will hrinr IX lack te fatare
nwafatwejjr Weekly
wrtn in smtj.
'Jim gotfaoo from a soap concern fee
sa advertising scheme."
What wa itT
Tacy employ ahundred dirty tramps
to go about the country tolling prop
that their condition Is due to their aat
having used IUank'ss-'ap.' Jury.
Trt SHfm.
We H th public attf-ntina, ej
rUJJr caol aj-ertatendeBt aad teach
er, to the f et that oo skceoaat of tV "
tioasl K4artloal AociMoa mrvUog
to b- b14 t Torvato. Jnlr Hth to tta,
tb Jartsctsvili JsVwth-asW U sad
Santa Iifstr sil mass1 trip tirkU
from ft LonW aad all point on. lu lla
at ONE FAKE. pls it nsembhlp fe.
Ticket ill W old Jalr 'h to 13th. aad
the limit will b arroaxvd u that th
hu viik can task a vUlt or tk td
trip to point ia Caaad aad thr Kt at
reduerd rate. Osr rest t via Chicago
sad bj direct ltae from Cfalcmge. Peat
fall to call oa or write to a railroad agvat
fr particular of the "Ked ixerses"
route
IT run the finet chair aad compart
mtul NWplnj tar In la world.
D. W. RtncK. HupX Jckouvlll, I1L
H. A .Scttix. Gu'l Axot !'a'r JpL,
13 Ctie.taot Street. bU toniv
W. W Kxvr, Ora'l Pa'r Acnt. Jack.
aonvillr. llL
Tbkxk ! alwsra one war for an aaM
tfou actrr- to Lecomo a kutlug bhJy,
sad that U to bur a big do. SomervtUe
Journal.
w - m in.
A Trfinndou tltunpua
Is kicked up In the lotnach aad bowels by
drastic punnaUve. Far wirr l it to relax
the latter with Uiteiter ahtnmacli HlUera.
which never produce puln. act ReaUy but
effectually, and toe uw of wrbicU ia sever
feUotved bv a weakening eSrcl upes the
heurris lllltoun, tlrp-"iA. malarial aad
kMsey trouble, rbeumaUsi and eeeilitx
yield to it.
rosirriuea ll't the hardest kind of work
to grl tbe strapping big fellow to tmcklo
down to worn. Pttuburft-U I'owt.
War are you sick! iWue ymi hate
SiHlWctrd nature' lun Sho ronUnual!r
tries a correct the trouble but ctnncit do it
witheatsssintancR. 1'rvUIy Ah HitW l
thesssistsat needed, and with the help of
till wicdiriB - jmtr health will 1 tut- re
stored- Give It a trial and watch the rrultv
It Is time for tho cranberry crop to fall
vraea the peach crop tail to full. N. U
Mcarua.
Hollow eyed little children, worm are
making them mlerablr Mother crt them
a Ikx of I)r Hull' Worm Deilrojern.
Children like them
The murderer's version of It
good nooe. Hoston Courier.
-no nooe It
Tb wbe wUh to practice economy
should buy Carter' UtUe Liver Pill.
Forty pills la a vial, only one pill a doc
A Oaixowh t probably nut tocethcr w Ith
hanimsila Ulngliatnton Kcoublicwn.
THE GENERAL MARKETS.
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On the move
Liver, Stomach, and Bowels,
after Dr. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets have done their work.
It's a healthy movement, too
a natural one. The organs
are not forced into activity
one day, to sink back into a
worse state the next They're
cleansed and regulated mild
ly and quietly, without wrench
ing or griping. One tiny,
sugar-coated Pellet is all that's
needed as a gentle laxative;
three to four act as a cathar
tic They're the smallest,
cheapest, the easiest to take.
Sick Headache, Bilious Head
ache, Constipation, Indigestion,
Bilious Attacks, and all de
rangements of the Liver,
Stomach and Bowels are
promptly relieved and cured.
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CHEAP COMFORT
Crm be secured by the small investment in one cake of
SA POLIO when yotL have, a house ar kit eh en to clean.
From- the paint ta the pots and tans, and including Um
windows and floors, it is the very lcst Uilxr sating' soap
for scouring and cleaning. All Grocers .sell U,
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Of Roxbuiy, Mass., sis
Kenneth s Mrdu.il Discovery
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Seated I'lcrrs of 4Q years
standing. Inward Tumor, and
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